The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-02-10
CURRENT TOPICS.
rHE debt Of Canada is saOe, 600, 900.

Cal.
AsovrunnH fur company wants 10000
eats.
A ooALnLAoK deer has been seen neal
Chico, Cal. @E H
NoRwicH, Conn, has family named
Bkeesucks.
THrns are e,os3 Grand Army posts IN tn.
United States.
woLF-seALP legislation ia engaging the
Dakota salons.
A BILL In the Texas Legislature propose,
70 outlaw bar bills.
BAKER County, Ore, is larger than an,
New England state.
MAsoS BEr is now the only American IL.
the Egyptian service
lLiISoB is not only ou; OF debt, but has
5000 In its treasury.
A SrANIARp has turned the whole Bible
into poetry, 260,0O0 stanEas.
GESKRAL PLEAsASToN was In l05 battles,
but never received q wound
A COAL train OF eightcon cars was blown
from the track near Denver, Col.
TBE business OF the United states
Supreme Court is four years behind.
A son OF Kit Carson resides in Los An
geles, and is struggling with poverty.
TExNysoN's eyesight Is failing him 10
such an extent as 10 cause serious alarm.
ARKASsAs proposes TO raise the price
Of her State bonds and wipo out tho State
debt
TnK Chinese claim 10 have used natural
gas In the manufacture Of terra Gotta long,
long ago.
IT ia said that tho area Of winter wheat
is decreasing and the area Of spring wheat
increasing.
SIx gunncry instructors have boon lent
10 the Chinese Government by the British
Admiralty.
wniLE excavatlng m Rpmo house de-
clared TO bo OF the third century has been
discovered.
A SASDusKr man Hipped up "a trade dol
lar, which descended into pct dog, agape
at tho time.
A HIoH.LIcESsE bill has been introduced
In the Minnesota Legislature IL fixes the
license Mt ti 900.
TnE entire okchnokcc swamp, In Gcor
gie and Florida, can be bought for about
ten cents per acre.
'.coAL on JonSSiE" STEELE, once mil
lionaire, is now in jail as v,grant at
Mount Holly, M.
DANIEL DouonERTr, tho PHI adclphi.
lawyer, has declined 10 net as CO Insel for
the Chicago Anarchists.
TnE Missouri Legislature win uy its fine
Italian hand at the bill for the sur precision
OF Pinkerion detectives
POLICEMEN and frcmen In New York re.
ceivcd over half million dollars from the
city M pension last year.
TExAs contemplatcs placing 2,0m,0oO
acres OF her university lands In tho hands
Of agents for sale or lease.
GovERSoR PrERcE, OF Dakota, rendered
hts resignation 10 the President which was
accepted 20 tako effect at once.
THE Kansas Legislature is wrestling
with n capital removal scheme. II is 70
take u any where out OF Topeka.
THE Car has paid t6oo 900 for the famous
0alitzin collection Of paintings for the Her
mitagc gallery at 81. Petersburg.
THH ownor OF the Miller carcoupler haa
begun suit for infringement against the
Pennsylvania railroad for $4,000.
The New York State Senate has passed
the bill 10 mako September legal holi-
day, to be known as labor day.
TBE Dakota Legislature continues &c
make war on the railroads. They want
railways assessed as individuals are.
The great bronze door OF the east front
entrance Of the rotunda OF the Capitol
weighs 1900 pounds, aud cost $4,000
CoSoREss passed m amended bill by
which el00,0cois appropriated for the build
ing OF now barracks at Newport Ky.
A MARSH near Cape May, N. j., is being
searched for Captain Kidd's supposed
buried treasures by some people Of that
city
THEr have toboggan slide nj Bismarck,
ID T., where II Is said tho stecl-shod to-
b"ggans acquire velocity Of three miles
q minute.
rHE appropriations made by Congress,
from 1900 TO date, for the erection and re
modelling OF the Capitol, amount TO over
elb,O00,0O0.
RECENT visitors 10 General Sam. Hous.
toms grave, at Huntsville Texas, could
with difficulty find II, rs n is cvergrowr
with weeds.
ACCORDING 10 recent English expert
mcnts IL Is found that growth Of iyy over
house rcndcrs the interior entirely free
from moisture.
Dir. TUCKER, Of Brooklyn, paid s975 for
first choice OF the pews in Talmage's
church, selecting tho same ono for which
he paid 500 last year.
AFTER an absence OF two years and nno
days pet squirrelreturn to Daniel ban
ner, OF Mattison, Mich, and took up its
quarters in its old cage
HDAM SIBLEr, the wealthy SCOTSMAN, Of
Rochester, N. ", is about TO give $e50,0OO
10 Cornell Uniyersityto enlarge the Sibley
College OF Mechanic Arts.
A CRIMINAL was bnilcd out in New York
the other day who vows he wouldn't have
the process repeated for $1,000. 1t wa,
done with a stomach pump.
A VERY efiicacious and celebrated Rus
sian patent medicine was recently ana
lyzed. IL was found to ba nothing bu
water from the river Neva,
A HERD Of buffaioes were seen a. Painted
Woods, near Bismarck, recently-the first
seen in two years. They were driven hun.
drctis Of miles by the storm.
The grave OF Edmond About, in the
cemetery OF Pere la Chaise, is never with
out its bouquet OF flowers, placed there by
the widow Of the dead author.
THE Emperor Of China is tho shortest
monarch in tho world, being only live feet
tall, and the Emperor William Of German,